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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... The Silver Lining Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema 3 rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...ted especially for him. He was born and raised there. He knows no other place. The people around him – unbeknownst to him – are all actors. His lif... ...efine him and infuse his life with meaning. Caught in a narrative, the movie says, people act immorally. (IN)famous psychological experiments supp... ...gh grim looking tubes and keeps them immersed in gelatinous liquid in cocoons. This new "machine species" derives its energy needs from the electric... ...ease in his own body. As the plot unravels, Dan is led to believe that he may have murdered his wife's lover, Jack. This thriller offers additional... ... endowed with a brain). Equally undoubtedly, this self-identity is not Dan's (but a new, unfamiliar, one). Such is the stuff of our nightmares - bo... ...s not present because he does not remember Dan and how it is to be Dan. He may have murdered Jake - but, by all philosophical and ethical criteria, ... ...enior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): – Chief Analyst of Edible Commoditi...

Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in thirteen modern films.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - prescribes... ...rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant dutie... ...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...erich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organization,... ...ease in his own body. As the plot unravels, Dan is led to believe that he may have murdered his wife's lover, Jack. This thriller offers additional... ...s not present because he does not remember Dan and how it is to be Dan. He may have murdered Jake - but, by all philosophical and ethical criteria, ...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 3

By: Thomas Hutchinson

... SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...eloved tortoise-lyre tight. 26. 26. 26. 26. 26. There he lay innocent as a new-born child, As gossips say; but though he was a God, The Goddess, his f... ...lives in this obscure abode. 29 29 29 29 29 ‘But we will leave this shadow-peopled cave And live among the Gods, and pass each day In high communion, ... ... be both tall and strong, _350 And I am but a little new-born thing, Who, yet at least, can think of nothing wrong:— My business... ...L FL FLOR OR OR OR ORO: O: O: O: O: I pray That you depart hence with your people, and Leave us to finish what we have begun ... ...ling’s door _110 The frightful waves are driven,—when his son Is murdered by the tyrant, or religion Drives his wife raving mad. But the poo... ...d in their various attitudes of death _190 My murdered children’s mute and eyeless skulls Glared ghastily upon me. But my... ...ished by : John Lane, at the Sign : of the Bodley Head in : London and New York : MDCCCXCVIII. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. Posthumous Fragments : of : Margaret Nic...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an elec tronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise , Translated by H.F. Ca... ...n that comes boiling from the fire. And suddenly upon the day appear’d A day new ris’n, as he, who hath the power, Had with another sun bedeck’d the s... ...my first rais’d doubt, By those brief words, accompanied with smiles, Yet in new doubt was I entangled more, And said: “Already satisfied, I rest The ... ...gh me from Charles and Rodolph; had not ill lording which doth spirit up The people ever, in Palermo rais’d The shout of ‘death,’ re echo’d loud and l... ... spouse He sent, who by their deeds and words might join Again his scatter’d people. In that clime, Where springs the pleasant west wind to unfold The... ...i, whose wife was living at the same time in the same city, and on his being murdered by her brother the tyrant, was by her brother married to a nobl... ... She predicts also the fate of Ricciardo da Camino, who is said to have been murdered at Trevigi, where the rivers (Sile and Cagnano meet) while he ... ... of the most profound divines of his age. “He refused the archbishopric of York, which was offered him by Clement IV, but afterwards was prevailed o...

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Hypotheses on Ulysses

By: Antonio Mercurio

... ANTONIO MERCURIO HYPOTHESES ON ULYSSES A new look at Homer’s Odyssey 2 ... ... Under the following conditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way tha... ... ANTONIO MERCURIO HYPOTHESES ON ULYSSES This book presents a new way of interpreting the Odyssey that is ingenious, beautiful and eleg... ...n forces. The Odyssey is the greatest love story that has ever been told in the history of world literature. It is based not on love and death (li... ...ile Dante identifies the cardinal sins as the negative forces that destroy people during their lives after they have left the womb, Homer sees them a... ...storted. When, as so often happens, disillusionment and unhappiness arrive, people often realize that it is another type of beauty they are looking f... ...t succeed in doing so, even though her plan to have Ulysses and Telemachus murdered was ingenious. I can answer this question in the following ma... ...“La saggezza dei libri” ed Rizzoli, 2004 {Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? New York: 2004}. He refers, however, mostly to the Iliad, and I want to mainl...

...fe of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decision and as a project. It is not a tale of love based on falling in love or, worse, on love as passion, which is so greatly celebrated in literature and in the public opinion, but which has never brought happiness to anyone and has, instead, brought great grief and tragedy. It is based on ...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...FROM THE COVER OF SAPPHO’S JOURNAL: In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back... ...’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, he... ... taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely per... ...en with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely persona... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...ure artist, Bartlett writes with ease and taste.” J. DONALD ADAMS in The New York Times: “...the freshest, most vital writing I have seen for some ... ... artist, Bartlett writes with ease and taste.” J. DONALD ADAMS in The New York Times: “...the freshest, most vital writing I have seen for some time... ...than create a vague illusion of the past. He conveys the character of real people, their interior life and outer world. A mature artist, he writes wi... ...aid, rubbing his hands over his face. I said nothing. “I could have him murdered,” he said. “Alcaeus...wait...” “Wait? How much longer must we wa...

...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ... ...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ...lowed the same privi- lege, and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such opera- tio... ...igher in North America than in any part of England. In the province of New York, common labourers earned in 1773, before the commencement of the late ... ... price; and wages are said to be as high in the other colo- nies as in New York. The price of provisions is everywhere in North America much lower tha... ... great continent. The French, who attempted to settle in Florida, were all murdered by the Span- iards. But the declension of the naval power of this ...

...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...out them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of th... ...llows. I don’t mean to say that we were not acquainted with many En- glish people. Living, as we perforce lived, in Europe, and being, as we perforce ... ... man in Philadelphia. They had never been to Philadelphia and they had the New England conscience. You see, the first thing they said to me when I cal... ...h Street, which was then still residential. I don’t know why I had gone to New York; I don’t know why I had gone to the tea. I don’t see why Florence ... ...reet, which was then still residential. I don’t know why I had gone to New York; I don’t know why I had gone to the tea. I don’t see why Florence shou... ...lmly, and said: “Never do you dare to mention Mrs Maidan’s name again. You murdered her. You and I murdered her between us. I am as much a scoundrel a... ... he took all that trouble over getting off the gardener’s daughter who had murdered her baby. He shook hands smilingly with every farmer in the market...

...and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing wh...

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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850)

By: Olive Gilbert

...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850), Dictated by Sojourner ... .................................................... 16 HER STANDING WITH HER NEW MASTER.................................................................... .......................................................................... 40 NEW TRIALS ................................................................... ...s and Betsey, slaves of one Colonel Ardinburgh, Hurley, Ulster County, New York. Colonel Ardinburgh belonged to that class of people called Low Dutch.... ...ley, Ulster County, New York. Colonel Ardinburgh belonged to that class of people called Low Dutch. Of her first master, she can give no account, as s... ...some time very comfortably. The strangers who rented the house were humane people, and very kind to them; they were not rich, and owned no slaves. How... ...oms exclaiming, with uplifted hands-’Heavens and earth, Isabella! Fowler’s murdered Cousin Eliza!’ ‘Ho, ’ said Isabel, ‘that’s nothing—he liked to hav... ...eranged, and walking to and fro in her delirium, called aloud for her poor murdered daughter—’Eliza! Eliza! ‘ The derangement of Mrs. G. was a matter ...

................................................................................................................... 13 COMMENCEMENT OF ISABELLA?S TRIALS IN LIFE ................................................................................................................................................... 14 TRIALS CONTINUED ....................................................

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The Devils Disciple

By: George Bernard Shaw

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Devil’s Disciple by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania S... ...en a black night and a win- try morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hamp- shire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of ... .... Sh! She may hear you. MRS. DUDGEON (raising her voice). Let her hear me. People who fear God don’t fear to give the devil’s work its right name. (Ch... ...ws that he is opening a difficult subject.) Has Christy told you about the new will? MRS. DUDGEON (all her fears returning). The new will! Did Timothy... ...she want troubling me at this hour, before I’m properly dressed to receive people? CHRISTY. You’d better ask her. MRS. DUDGEON (threateningly). You’d ... ...oing to your death, Tony— your sure death, if God will let innocent men be murdered. They will not let you see him: they will arrest you the mo- ment ... ...geon is a name well known to us, eh? RICHARD. Yes: Peter Dudgeon, whom you murdered, was my uncle. SWINDON. Hm! (He compresses his lips and looks at R... ... south from Boston to do, and what General Howe has marched north from New York to do: effect a junction at Albany and wipe out the rebel army with ou...

...Excerpt: ACT I. At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the town of Websterbridge. She is not a prepossessing woman. No woman looks her be...

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Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity

By: George Bernard Shaw

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christia... ........................................................................ 41 A NEW STORY AND A NEW CHARACTER ................................................ ...here have been one or two grotesque attempts at it by in- 8 Shaw adequate people, such as the Kingdom of God in Munster, which was ended by crucifixi... ...p who took the part of Annas went home and died of horror. But responsible people have never made such attempts. The moneyed, respectable, capable wor... ... of as- suming that Jesus shared that view. But it is quite clear from the New Testament writers (the chief authorities for believ- ing that Jesus eve... ... resistance, being persuaded that it is part of his destiny as a god to be murdered and to rise again. One of his followers shows fight, and cuts off ... ...annot be done in Jerusalem or Juan Fernandez cannot be done in London, New York, Paris, and Berlin. In short, Christianity, good or bad, right or wron... ... and a cabin boy for the purpose of transferring you from Liverpool to New York, or to manoeuvre a fleet and carry powder from the magazine to the gun...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...TER TER, ET , ET , ET , ET , ETC. ET C. ET C. ET C. ET C. ETC. C. C. C. C. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...s scattered over the surface of books. I begin with this question:—What do people mean in a Christian land by the word ‘religion?’ My purpose is not t... ...radations would have arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of thei... ...usehold laws;’ that is, not teaching such laws, not formally prescribing a new economy of life, so much as inspiring it indirectly through a new atmos... ...ring it indirectly through a new atmosphere surround- ing all objects with new attributes. But there is also in Chris- tianity, 4thly. A doctrinal par... ...ered little, but would have been awkward had he come to be Arch- bishop of York; and that he did not, turned upon the acci- dent of a few weeks too so... ...that it did, but I feared so; and, as there was no chance that I should be murdered for speaking freely, (though the place was lonely, and the evening... ...ittle army was basely, brutally, in the very spirit of abject poltroonery, murderedmurdered as foully as the infants of Bethlehem; resistance being q...

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An Unsocial Socialist

By: George Bernard Shaw

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania ... ...makes me feel like an author; and so in Christian duty I always read other people’s. Listen to poor Sarah’s tale of guilt. ‘1st October. I am very sor... ...wicked; but it was coming out by itself; and she has forgiven me because a new one will come in its place; and she was only pretending when she said s... ...at her daughter had taken the hint. “You had better go and wash your face. People may call, and I presume you don’t wish to receive them in that pligh... ...he had maintained the capital inherited from his father, and made it breed new capital in the usual way. He was a banker, and his object as such was t... ...Jane, hurrying on. “It’s just the sort of place that people get robbed and murdered in.” “It is not such a bad place to shelter in if we get caught in... ...ointment. “Don’t lose heart, ladies,” said Smilash. “She may be drowned or murdered for all we know. Anyone may send a telegram in a false name. Perha... ...nsider a defalcation made good when the money is replaced—and to go to New York. I recom- mended him not to go there; but he knew better than I, for h...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of Th... ...ng Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...nd Sandwich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are said to live in New England; something about your condition, especially your outward condi ... ...for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...ou cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, per chance, to fet... ...nd find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ... was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to... ...r read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked... ...al luvion which covers the globe, through Paris and Lon don, through New York and Boston and Concord, Walden 90 through Church and State, through p...

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Narrative Tive of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

By: Frederick Douglass

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave b... ... attendance, on the occasion alluded to, though at that time a resident in New Bedford. Fortunate, most fortunate occurrence!—fortunate for the millio... ...ety and a blessing to his race—by the law of the land, by the voice of the people, by the terms of the slave code, he was only a piece of property, a ... ...a beast of burden, a chattel personal, nevertheless! A beloved friend from New Bedford prevailed on Mr. Dou- glas to address the convention: He came f... ...but the absence of all fear of God, all regard for man, on the part of the people of the United States? Heaven speed its eternal overthrow! So profoun... ...ce of his master’s wife. In 1838 he es- caped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had ... ...of Mr. Giles Hicks, living but a short distance from where I used to live, murdered my wife’s cousin, a young girl between fifteen and sixteen years o... ...e to her death by severe beating. The offence for which this girl was thus murdered was this:—She had been set that night to mind Mrs. Hicks’s baby, a...

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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

By: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, the P... ...ared away the debris which made for sterility and erected in their stead a new structure out of living Russian words. The spoken word, born of the peo... ... a new structure out of living Russian words. The spoken word, born of the people, gave soul and wing to litera- ture; only by coming to earth, the na... ...of which he was not a little contemptuous, that he read the history of his people. Time and again, in his essays and in his letters to friends, he exp... ...the appearance in Europe of brotherhoods and knight- hood-orders, and this new race, in spite of its living the life of marauders, in spite of turning... ..., 1860; St. John’s Eve and Other Stories, trans. by Isabel F. Hapgood, New York, Crowell, 1886; Taras Bulba: Also St. John’s Eve and Other Stories, Lo... ... Tchitchikoff’s Journey’s; or Dead Souls, trans. by Isabel F. Hapgood, New York, Crowell, 1886; Dead Souls, London, Vizetelly, 1887; Dead Souls, Londo... ...ssion, he chased her about the room with a knife, and would doubtless have murdered her then and there, if they had not seized him and prevented him. ...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pe... ...nimal, the matin dawn And the sweet season. Soon that joy was chas’d, And by new dread succeeded, when in view A lion came, ‘gainst me, as it appear’d... ...an I can speak.” As one, who unresolves What he hath late resolv’d, and with new thoughts Changes his purpose, from his first intent Remov’d; e’en suc... ...the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me w... ... Hell 29 As thou shalt tell me, why in all their laws, Against my kin this people is so fell?” “The slaughter and great havoc,” I replied, “Tha... ...v. 111. Obizzo’ of Este.] Marquis of Ferrara and of the Marca d’Ancona, was murdered by his own son (whom, for the most unnatural act Dante calls his... ... de’Parcitati, a noble knight, and leader of the Ghibelline party at Rimini, murdered by Malatestino. v. 46. Lamone’s city and Santerno’s.] Lamone is... ... of the most profound divines of his age. “He refused the archbishopric of York, which was offered him by Clement IV, but afterwards was prevailed o...

...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...re in right with him, but the lieutenant’s a stinker … . Where you from?” “New York,” said the rookie, a little man of thirty with an ash-colored face... ...n right with him, but the lieutenant’s a stinker … . Where you from?” “New York,” said the rookie, a little man of thirty with an ash-colored face and... ... ye, when you get home, rookie … . But you’re in luck.” “Why?” “Bein’ from New York. The corporal, Tim Sidis, is from New York, an’ all the New York f... ... when you get home, rookie … . But you’re in luck.” “Why?” “Bein’ from New York. The corporal, Tim Sidis, is from New York, an’ all the New York felle... ...od friend who’s a kike.” They were coming out of the movies in a stream of people in which the blackish clothes of factory-hands predominated. “I came... ...selli, “everything’s awful pretty-like. Picturesque, they call it. And the people wears peasant costumes … . I had an uncle who used to tell me about ... ...s for himself: a general, like Caesar, he was to conquer the world and die murdered in a great marble hall; a wandering minstrel, he would go through ...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...other and sister, the remaining children, were cared for by others. In his new home Edgar found all the luxury and advantages money could provide. He ... ...cted with various newspapers and magazines in Richmond, Phila- delphia and New Y ork. He was faithful, punctual, industrious, thorough. N. P . Willis,... ... “He was at all times a dreamer-dwelling in ideal realms-in heaven or hell-peopled with the creatures and the accidents of his brain. He walked-the st... ...n season’ from you made ‘The Raven,’ and made ‘Ulalume’ (which by-the-way, people have done me the honor of attributing to you), there- fore, I would ... ...no such modes of murder as this. Least of all, do they thus dispose of the murdered. In the manner of thrusting the corpse up the chimney, you will ad... ... explanation of the general design. A young girl, Mary Cecilia Rogers, was murdered in the vicinity of New Y ork; and, although her death occasioned a... ... by the presence of the tide from sea. But, leaving this tide out *The New York “Commercial Advertiser,” edited by Col. Stone. 165 V olume One of que...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.

...EOPARD .............................................................................................................................. 108 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE............................................................................................................ 115 THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET. ......................................................................

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... suggest, I might never have left the Ministerial presence alive. The good people of Paris might have heard of me no more. But I had an object apart f... ...ness that, at Glaumba, which is more than fifty leagues from the mountain, people could only find their way by groping. During the eruption of Vesuviu... ... of Salem, Mass., presented the “Na- tional Institute” with an insect from New Zealand, with the following description: “ ‘The Hotte,a decided caterpi... ...oam. The boat made a sharp half turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt. At the same moment the roaring noise of t... ...h I had been guilty, confronted me, as if the very ghost of him whom I had murdered—and beckoned me on to death. At first, I made an effort to shake o... ...DESTRIAN TRIP last summer, through one or two of the river counties of New York, I found myself, as the day declined, somewhat embarrassed about the r... ... in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.” THE TELL-TALE HEART TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully ...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ... taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely per... ...en with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely persona... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...ure artist, Bartlett writes with ease and taste.” J. DONALD ADAMS in The New York Times: “...the freshest, most vital writing I have seen for some ... ...aid, rubbing his hands over his face. I said nothing. “I could have him murdered,” he said. “Alcaeus...wait...” “Wait? How much longer must we wa... ... asleep. I slept inside a dream. Peter’s Home Kislev 10 John is dead. Murdered. He has been beheaded. The world has lost a voice of reason. I h...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the pri...

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History of the Britons

By: Nennius

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius, trans. ... ...men; much less was I able in my own strength, but like a barbarian, have I murdered and defiled the language of oth- ers. But I bore about with me an ... ...bout with me an inward wound, and I was indignant, that the name of my own people, formerly fa- mous and distinguished, should sink into oblivion, and... ..., bishop of Bangor, A.D. 755, who first adopted in the Cambrian church the new cycle for regulating Easter. 4 History of the Britons the labour thus ... ...h year of Edmund, king of the Angles. *And forty, according to Stevenson’s new edition. The rest of this chronology is much contracted in several of t... ...istory of the Britons, edited by Mark the anchorite, a holy bishop of that people. 7. The island of Britain derives its name from Brutus, a Ro- man co... ...he, of the Saxon race, was the first king in Bernicia, and in Cair Ebrauc (York). When Gratian Aequantius was consul at rome, because then the whole w... ...nights in the island of Metcaut; and whilst he was on an expedition he was murdered, at the instance of Morcant, out of envy, because he possessed so ...

...ants of God, by the grace of God, disciple of St. Elbotus, to all the followers of truth sendeth health. Be it known to your charity, that being dull in intellect and rude of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings ...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow, the Pennsylv... ...n- ions tentatively and is always ready to reexamine, modify or discard as new evidence comes to light. Naturally in a book of this sort there are man... ...such abnormalities of the mind as are called “criminal” is a comparatively new idea. The whole subject has long been dealt with from the standpoint of... ...andment could not be meant to for- bid killing animals. Yet there are many people who believe that it does, or at least should. No Christian state mak... ..., if conscience has been placed in man by a divine power, why have not all peoples been furnished with the same guide? There is no doubt that all men ... ...ike great black clouds afflicted them. And the souls of those who had been murdered said, as they stood and looked upon the punishment of their murder... ...tly published, based on inves- tigations by a special committee of the New York State Com- mission of Prisons, shows that in the New Y ork Reformatory... ...this family was made by Richard L. Dugdale, who was connected with the New York Prison Association. It was first published in 1877 and may almost be r...

...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of it...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...Brad- ley—The psychology of character-changes—Emo- tional excitements make new centres of personal en- ergy—Schematic ways of representing this— Starb... ...ted— Characteristics of the faith-state: sense of truth; the world appears new— Sensory and motor automatisms— Permanency of conversions. 7 William J... ...colleague Dickinson S. Miller, and to my friends, Thomas Wren Ward, of New York, and Wincenty Lutoslawski, late of Cracow, for important suggestions a... ...nging places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- ters even as one people; and tha... ...f lowly origin be asserted is seen in those comments which unsenti- mental people so often pass on their more sentimen- 19 William James tal acquaint... ... the former. Mr. Dresser’s works are published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York and London; Mr. Wood’s by Lee & Shepard Boston. [46] Lest my own testi... ...retreat of it prevented by the arrow transfixed. Similarly hath not many a murdered carcase at the coroner’s inquest suffered a 480 The V arieties of...

Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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Twenty Three Tales

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...s Publication PREFACE....3 GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS ....5 A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS ....13 THE BEAR HUNT ....40 WHAT MEN LIVE BY ....49 A SPARK... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...NSLATED BY L. AND A. MAUDE Originally published by FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK 1907 PREFACE This volume is divided into seven parts. First we hav... ...TED BY L. AND A. MAUDE Originally published by FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK 1907 PREFACE This volume is divided into seven parts. First we have Ta... ...ries of stories written for the Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : Preface 3 people; and among them What Men Live By, probably the most widely circulate... ...der. The date when each story was published is given. The translations are new ones, and for the footnotes I am responsible. AYLMER MAUDE. GREAT BADDO... ...w, in his mind, the place where he was flogged, the execu tioner, and the people standing around; the chains, the convicts, all the twenty six years ... ...e robber in front of a prison house. And the godfather said: ‘This man had murdered ten men. He should have expiated his sins himself, but by killing ...

... is divided into seven parts. First we have Tales for Children, published about the year 1872, and reminding us of the time when Tolstoy was absorbed in efforts to educate the peasant children. This section of the book contains the two stories which of all that he has written Tolstoy likes best. In What is Art? he claims no place among examples of good art for any of his o...

...Contents PREFACE....3 GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS ....5 A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS ....13 THE BEAR-HUNT ....40 WHAT MEN LIVE BY ....49 A SPARK NEGLECTED ....71 TWO OLD MEN ....86 WHERE LOVE IS, ....109 THE STORY OF IV?N THE FOOL, .....122 EVIL ALLURES, BUT GOOD ENDURES ....149 LITTLE GIRLS W...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylv... ...en Mrs. Masham had not yet put Madam Marlborough’s nose out of joint; when people had their ears cut off for writing very meek political pamphlets; an... ... I’ve been to Stratford fair, and to W arwick many a time; and there’s two people who have offered to marry me, and ever so many who want to, and I wo... ...the rustic bystanders were quite convinced of the good intentions of their new friend, and accompanied him back to the “Bugle,” to re- gale upon the p... ...ght use, if he liked, the Galgenstein arms with a bar-sinister; and in her new cares and duties had not so many opportunities as usual of quarrelling ... ..., and so on, how dreadfully like a rascal is to an honest man. The man who murdered the Italian boy, set him first to play with his children whom he l... ...ared last night, in the hearing of several witnesses, that he was going to York; says he is a man of independent property, and has large estates in Ir... ...Egad, Abbe,” said he, “you turn as white as a sheet.” “I don’t fancy being murdered, my Lord,” said the Abbe, hastily; “and murdered for a good work. ...

...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, a...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...M. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan’s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. T... ...en presented. It is only possible to write another study, and then, with a new “point of view,” would follow new perversions and per- haps a fresh car... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ...ar to that of Shakspeare’s Hamlet. The times were out of joint; here was a murdered father to avenge on a powerful murderer; and here, in both cases, ... ...s not the man to avenge his father. Like Hamlet, this son of a dear father murdered was sincerely grieved at heart. Like Hamlet, too, he could un- pac... ...gnificent copy of Charles’s poems, given by our Henry VII. to Elizabeth of York on the occasion of their marriage, a large illumination figures at the...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of ...

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